Prison Visitor Says She Was Forced to 'Prove' She Was Menstruating
LatestA new lawsuit against the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison management company in the U.S., alleges that a female visitor was strip-searched and humiliated at a prison in Clifton, Tennessee. The woman says during her security screening she had to “prove” she was on her period by allowing a female guard to inspect her vagina.
In the lawsuit, which we saw at Think Progress, the woman, identified only as Jane Doe, says she was visiting an inmate at South Central Correctional Facility in Clifton on April 20, 2014. She was going through the security line on her way in to the prison when a security guard spotted a sanitary napkin protruding from her pocket. A male guard asked what it was, and the woman took it out of her pocket and showed it to them. She was told she’d have to get a “CCA-approved” pad instead.
According to her complaint, which the Nashville Scene has uploaded in full here, the male guard, with another male guard standing beside him, then told her, “But I’ll have to make sure you are — I’ll have to make sure you are actually —”